Wednesday, April 25, 2012

The much-maligned Transport Security Authority (TSA) is once again in
hot water after it accused an innocent four-year-old girl of attempted
gun smuggling as she hugged her grandmother in the security zone.

­In a Facebook post that has since gone viral, Michelle Brademeyer
describes the story of her family being detained as potential terrorists
by the TSA on a flight out of Wichita, Kansas. The TSA is responsible
for screening passengers as they board and disembark from planes.

Brademeyer
was passing through security checks with her mother and her small
daughter, Isabella. When the older lady triggered the metal detector,
and was told to go for a pat-down, Isabella ran over to and briefly
hugged her grandmother..... MORE